PRICKLE CELL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prickle cell mean? 

• PRICKLE CELL (noun)
  The noun PRICKLE CELL has 1 sense:

1. a cell in the germinal layer of the skin (the prickle-cell layer); has many spines and radiating processes

  Familiarity information: PRICKLE CELL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRICKLE CELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cell in the germinal layer of the skin (the prickle-cell layer); has many spines and radiating processes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("prickle cell" is a kind of...):

skin cell (any of the cells making up the skin)

 Context examples 

Successive stages of differentiation of the keratinocytes forming the epidermal layers are basal cell, spinous or prickle cell, and the granular cell.

(Keratinocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of the following layers: stratum corneum (horny layer), stratum granulosum (granular layer), stratum spinosum (prickle cell layer), and stratum basale (basal cell layer).

(Epidermis, NCI Thesaurus)